We explain how to get rid of that pesky holster mold and help preserve your WW1 & WW2 Holsters!

Getting Rid of Pesky Holster Mold the Easy Way

Hey, guys. And welcome to my office again. Thanks for coming in. As you can see, I've been looking at some holsters today. Normally I like to show you some really cool guns that just walked in the door. But today I want to give you a tip that I think you're gonna really like. In fact, you're going to like it so much when you're done watching this video, you're going to want to push the little like button at the bottom. So here it is. If you if you're a collector like me, you get holsters that are often very old.

 

Holsters vs. Humidity: The Never Ending Battle 

Now we live in the northeast. And one of the problems in the northeast, especially in the summer, is humidity. Holsters, when they're kept in a human environment often get moldy and I have a couple of pictures of what that mold looks like.

So, check out these holsters. These came from my basement. Now, the problem with the mold for 20, 30 years I've been collecting. And so, I would get mold on a holster and I would take my little rag with maybe some kind of clean cleanser or preservative on it and wipe the holster down all over. The problem is and this happens to be a World War Two era, in fact 1942, World War two era pigskin holster. So, all holsters have little crevices for the stitching, especially these. Take a look. You can even see the little pores in the pigskin. And then down inside and in here all over. You get these little mold spores. It just looks like white mold spores. So, I wipe it all down. I put it back in the safe. A month later, it all comes back. Why is that? Well, because the spores, if you don't get them all, you just have one spore. They reproduce. It's like a toe fungus. You can't get rid of the thing. It just keeps coming back. Not that I ever had it, but I've heard.

 

Get Rid of Holster Mold Immediately! No Serioulsy! 

So, let me get to the point of this video. I got a tip for you, you're going to love, a guy recently told me and again, been doing this 30 year, never knew this had changed my life. He said you cook them. So, what do I mean by that? You take, I take them home, put them on a cookie rack. I laid about four of them out that were covered with mold. Didn't wipe them off. Didn't do anything. around 250 degrees, 15-20 minutes. So, I just put them in a cookie sheet. Preheat the oven. Two hundred and fifty degrees. It's just enough to kill them. Kill the mold spores. I wouldn't do it over that because the one thing you don't want to do is you don't want to overcook it and crack the lever and you only want to do about 15 minutes. I come back fifteen minutes later turn off the oven because incredibly it's so hot you can't even touch the holster. You just let it sit for a while, cool down and you take a look at it. They come out like this. This one was covered with mold and I baked it in my hands shake and bake oven and 15 minutes later it was clean and not a mold spore anywhere in this holster, including all the little crevices.

Now, two cautions. I want to give you one. Don't think about doing it in the microwave. You will start a fire. The little metal attachments are going to spark and you can ruin the holster or cause a fire. The other caution that I would have for you is you need to talk to your significant other because it smells bad. It smells like a locker room when you're done(but it works). And don't try to sneak it because, you know, your wife goes out for an hour. You say I'm going to quick-cook some holsters. Why she's not here. She walks in the room and bam, she knows it does. It does make the house smell. But hopefully, you can open the windows, air it out pretty quickly. So, two hundred and fifty degrees for 15-20 minutes. Get rid of those mold spores and you'll be all set.

 

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